- Director Wes Craven claims to have named Freddy Krueger after a kid who bullied him in school.
- Krueger bleeds green.
- Just before Glen is pulled into the bed, the television station announces its name: "KRGR".
- Freddy Krueger's colors of red and green are contrasted throughout the movie.
- The movie Nancy watches to stay awake is Evil Dead, The (1982). See also Evil Dead II (1987).
- There is a ripped poster of Evil Dead, The (1982) visible. See also: Evil Dead, The (1982), Hills Have Eyes, The (1978).
- Director Wes Craven's original concept for Freddy Krueger was considerably more gruesome, with teeth showing through the flesh over the jaw, puss running from the sores, and a part of the skull showing through the head. Make-up artist David B. Miller argued that an actor couldn't be convincingly made up that way and a puppet would be hard to film and wouldn't blend well with live actors, so these ideas were eventualy abandoned.
- Special-effects man Jim Doyle played Freddy twice in this film, once during the film's first scene, when Freddy creates his infamous glove, and again when Freddy pulls Nancy down in the bath. His wife, Cristina Johnson, played Nancy when she got pulled underwater, and did hand and foot inserts for the gooey stairs sequence.
- In the scene where Nancy is sleeping at Tina's house and Freddy comes through the wall over the bed, Jason's hockey mask (from the Friday the 13th films) can be seen.
- The poster above Johnny Depp's bed in the scene where he is killed is the Grace Under Pressure album cover by Canadian rock trio Rush.
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